Wichita eagle., 1887-02-06

ers, and superb brown stone
and marble temples for the gods and god
desses of Wichita, who now, being Of the
same blood and metal as Jupiter Olympus
require castles, temples and palaces in
which to live, do business. worship God,
and listen to the opera Oh, it's wonder
full beyond all description, Imagination and
fancy. Less than six months ago wan
dering tramp, who had slept under farm
er's straw pile all night, struck the town
without cent in his.pocket, a bite in his
stomach, drop of water in his boiler, OF
liquor in his flask. In fifteen minutes his
flask was full, good breakfast in his
belly, new suit of clothes on his back,
and hundred dollars in his pocket; and in
less than an hour he had an option on a
SIC, 600 corner lot, which he sold before
high noon for $4,000, went to
restaurant, ate a sandwich, wash
ing it down with Wichita beer,
and returned to the field and before the
sun went down had $3.50, 900 in his clothes
and owned one of the Wichita medieval
suburban residences, the grounds of which
are all ornamented with statuary OF Orien-
tai magnifcencc of the costliest character,
such as angels putting their heads out,
rolled up in cabbage leaves, with dragons
on each side, riding broomstieks, and the
devil and his imps looking out of alligators'
mouths. The next day he led to this charm
ing home Wichita maiden, beautiful as
an hOnri, the sixteen-year-Old daughter of
an ex-governor of the state of Kansas, who
was an heiress in her own right to fortune
of two and half millions. In ninety days
beautiful son and heir was born unto the
happy pair. and now he has large and in
teresting family and is counted one of the
"solid muldoOns' of the con-
tinent, owning large interests in every
important business syndicate of
the land Such is life in Wichita eau
tious people are invariably asking the
question, "Will it iast?" Why put such
foolish heterogeneous? Of course it will
last Rake, scrape, sell, scratch, borrow,
at no matter the cost, trouble or rate Of in
terest, every dollar or piece of dollar.
and sock it dewn in Wichita before the
prices advances. Is not every boarding
house, hotel, restaurant, stable and stable
manger crowded with guests, all hell-bent
on having Wichita lot or dying in the at
tempt? Contractors declare that $40, 000,-
600 are to be spent the coming summer;
that they cannot take any more contracts;
that they are even now building in the
night time by electric light to fill obliga-
tons. Twelve hundred houses were built
last year, eight hundred Of which
were from four to seven stories high, mag
nifcent houses-granite, marble, iron and
artistic thing fronts, others of solid iron,
glass and brick, attractively and costly.
The public buildings are all on an inn
mense scale, and the brick towers of a hun
dred churches stand crayoned against the
sky for miles and miles away. The foun-
dations of a 100000 government building
are being now laid. Seven lines of rail
road radiate in all directions from the city,
and seven more lines are trying their level
best to find a way into into it. The whole
world is crowding, pushing, shovining,
trampling. and surgins to get into
Wichita. Why not You? Are you go
ing to stand idly by and see every bit
Of land surrounding Wichita gobbled up?
The corporate limits are extended by Coun-
Gil every morning at six o'clock, in order
to give capitalists, spectators and settlers
whe have arrived in the night chance to
own lot. Some day they will be estop
ped. Having reached the boundary lines
of the great state of Kansas, they will be
to stop. 1t would be uncon-
stitutional to extend the cooperate limits of
Wichita into the Indian Territory, Misscu-
ri Or Colorado Improve the time before
it is everlastingly too late For further
particulars see the Wichita EAGLE, paper
that has made city out of pure unadulter
ated wind.